Physicists said the next big thing in the world of particle physics will be the extension of the standard model of particle physics known as supersymmetry or SUSY.

According to a team of researchers, the better understanding of the universe will lead to the outgrowth of the discovery of the Higgs boson, and will lead to the discovery of its extension, the SUSY.

University of Oklahoma researchers said SUSY predict new matter states or super partners for each matter particle already accounted for in the standard model.

Physicists Howard Baer, Homer L. Dodge Professor of High Energy Physics in the OU Department of Physics and Astronomy, and his colleagues were the first in the world to show what SUSY matter might look like at colliding beam experiments.

Earlier reports said the Large Hadron Collider has not been successful so far in finding SUSY, while Atlas and CMS experiments is expected to provide new analysis on SUSY in March 2012.

The LHC will reportedly double the energy required to prove the SUSY theory.

Baer, who has studied SUSY for 25 years, said the discovery of the Higgs boson will open the door to a whole new world of super particles. "Finding the Higgs boson is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but the Higgs boson is only the tip of the iceberg of SUSY matter," Baer said.

"With SUSY, we are talking about the next level of the laws of physics. If there is SUSY, then we will find super partners, which will provide a new perspective for the origin and evolution of the universe. At that point, we can say we are on the road to a much deeper comprehension of nature, " Baer added.

The researchers said SUSY may be the next big step in understanding cosmology and the origin of dark matter, the so-called invisible particles that dominate the matter density of the universe.